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| 18 x 22" finished |
This was a one-year-old UFO, and my "Twelve Days of Christmas" is my first 2013 finish--an online free project from the Temecula Quilt Co in California. It's made from CW repro fabrics. I wrote about
it here 350 days ago and had called it a finish then. It was a finished top, but now it's totally finished, from quilting to binding to the label.
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| machine quilted |
Though my #1 fabric love is the Civil War reproductions, I use them in precious few projects. Considering how CW fabrics dominate my stash, that's so totally stupid. I hope to remedy that later this year.
I'm not a wonderful cook or baker, but I can follow a recipe (usually) and most
of what I make is edible. I learned a cooking lesson this week. After Christmas gatherings and treat making, we had
leftover ingredients. I looked at the leftover pretzels, cream cheese, and Cool Whip, and I found a bag of strawberries in the freezer. Tah dah! Time to make the well-known pretzel crust and strawberry jello
dessert (or salad).
Lesson learned -->
use full-fat cream cheese in this recipe. Do NOT use lower fat cream cheese. It doesn't work. It never set up. (My dessert in the left photo. An online photo using full-fat cream cheese on the right.) When I used a knife to cut serving portions, the knife came out pulling a string of what looked like melted mozzarella cheese. Whenever it could, the jello layer slid off. Good grief!!! It tasted OK, but it did NOT behave. So, be warned.
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| photo by Marg (Cayman Designs) |
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| using lower-fat cream cheese |
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10 comments:
Your little Temecula quilt is so nice. Mine is still a flimsy. Did you stitch in the ditch? I tried to see the quilting to decide how you did yours to inspire me to finish and I can't find the stitches.
Just close your eyes to eat the salad and you will never know the difference. : )
Beautiful 12 days! I like that you did not put them in date order :)
That pie is just sad! Brave of you to continue trying to eat it in this condition, lol!
Beautiful finish!!! I LOVE it!!!! Good to know about the cream cheese! :-)
Congratulations on the finish! I love that fabric you used for the side borders. I am good about using my 19th century repros in my projects. When I went back to work I knew I would have limited sewing time so I gifted the part of the stash that wasn't repros. Now, that's all I use.
Love your little quilt! I made it as well and it's just the perfect size! Well done!
Any finish is a great thing....love the fabrics you used.
I just found mine in my closet.....unfinished!!
Love your border fabric. You've inspired me to get busy on it.
I love minis, and that is a very cute little quilt.
I learned the cream cheese lesson, only with butter. Used butter lite for a baked cookie crust, and you couldn't chisel it out of the pie plate! Lesson learned.
What is it about repros? My stash is the same way. Most of my fabrics are repros, but it seems that I hardly use them....and I really like how they look. Maybe we are afraid if we use too many we'll run out. OK. I know that won't happen any time soon. I love your quilt. Congratulations on a finish for 2013.
Congrats on the finish. I love the fabrics you chose for your quilt. Hugs
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